Best of GraphQL — September 2024

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    Laravel and API Platform

    The post discusses integrating Laravel with API Platform, a PHP framework initially focused on Symfony. The author explains how to set up a Laravel API using API Platform, including installation, dependency updates, and configuring models with API resources. The integration simplifies creating CRUD operations, middleware integration, and configuring API documentation. The author highlights the ease of adding features like GraphQL and customizing serialization, filters, and other API aspects.

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    Event Sourcing made Simple

    Event Sourcing is to data what Git is to code, providing a complete history and enabling powerful features like time-travel and bug fixing. At Kickstarter, a minimal event sourcing framework was implemented for their Drip platform, significantly enhancing data management and application reliability. Key components include Events, Aggregates, Calculators, and Reactors, each playing a vital role in maintaining state, triggering actions, and ensuring synchronization. This approach simplifies debugging, data backfilling, and offers seamless integration with analytic platforms.

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    Top 10 Contentful Alternatives

    Choosing the right CMS is crucial for storing and accessing your content. Contentful, although popular, lacks features such as scalability, customization, and GraphQL mutations. This post explores 10 alternatives to Contentful, including Hygraph, Storyblok, Strapi, and Sanity, comparing their strengths, weaknesses, and unique features to help you make an informed decision.

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    SurrealDB 2.0

    SurrealDB 2.0 introduces major enhancements in stability, performance, and security, including an upgraded query language, Surreal QL, and a new storage engine, Surreal KV, built in Rust. New features include improved memory management, support for recursive queries, enhanced transaction and caching mechanisms, and powerful machine learning integrations. SurrealDB 2.0 also brings updates to all its SDKs, offering better performance and versatility across various programming languages.

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    Biome 1.9: Celebrating one year with enhanced CSS and GraphQL support & new search command

    Biome has released version 1.9, celebrating its first anniversary with key updates including enhanced CSS and GraphQL support, and a new `biome search` command destined for a future plugin system. The update also aligns its JavaScript formatter with Prettier v3.3 and introduces over 250 linter rules, integrating many ESLint rules.

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